Engineering & Technology

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Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation

Deadline: March 1, 2016

The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). Overall, the PFI program offers opportunities to connect new knowledge to societal benefit through translational research efforts and/or partnerships that encourage, enhance and accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Advanced, Trusted, Secure Hardware and Software System Computational Technologies

Deadline: March 1, 2016

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome Research Site, is soliciting white papers under this announcement fortechnologies to explore, research and develop innovative and potentially disruptive technologies that support trusted foundations/architectures for high assurance, secure, resilient systems, while increasing computational sophistication, capacity, and energy and cost performance efficiencies under constraints imposed by Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) trusted/secure systems and performance-requirement-driven layered information processing battlefield systems and networks.

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Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Research Advances in Smart and Connected Communities

Deadline: March 1, 2016

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Geosciences (GEO), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) wish to notify the community of their intention to support, foster, and accelerate fundamental research that addresses challenges in enabling Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC).

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Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program

Deadline: March 11, 2016

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invites applications for Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program, referred to as Superfund Research Program (SRP) Centers. SRP Center grants will support problem-based, solution-oriented research Centers that consist of multiple, integrated projects representing both the biomedical and environmental science and engineering disciplines; as well as cores tasked with administrative, community engagement, research translation, training, and research support functions.

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Vibrometry Interrogation for Battlefield Exploitation (VIBE)

Deadline: March 15, 2016

The objective of VIBE is to develop combat identification (CID) automatic target recognition (ATR) for vibrometry sensor data for use within anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments. The technologies developed in VIBE must demonstrate robust, efficient, high-performance, and sustainable technology.

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Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF) Research Initiation in Engineering Formation

Deadline: March 31, 2016

The Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) program enables engineering faculty who are renowned for teaching, mentoring, or leading educational reform efforts on their campus to initiate collaborations with colleagues in the social and/or learning sciences to address difficult, boundary-spanning problems in the professional formation of engineers.

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Ohio Sea Grant College Program

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Request for Proposals from Christopher J. Winslow, PhD. of The Ohio State University:

On behalf of the Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), the Ohio Sea Grant College Program is requesting pre-proposals for one- to two-year research projects from Ohio colleges and universities seeking solutions to reduce nutrient loading to Lake Erie and the problems it causes, including harmful algal blooms and the associated ecosystem and human health problems created by the blooms. We anticipate $1.9 million to be available for this competition (funding between 10-20 projects).

More information at ohioseagrant.osu.edu/research/funding

If you have any questions please contact Dr. Kristen Fussell at fussell.10@osu.edu

Arts and Humanities

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Next Generation Humanities PhD Implementation Grants

Deadline: February 17, 2016

Next Generation Humanities PhD Implementation Grants support universities in instituting wide-ranging changes in humanities doctoral programs. Humanities knowledge and methods can make an even more substantial impact on society if students are able to translate what they learn in doctoral programs into a multitude of careers. Next Generation PhD Implementation Grants are designed to produce plans that will transform scholarly preparation in the humanities at the doctoral level. Students will be prepared to undertake various kinds of careers, and humanities PhD programs will increase their relevance for the twenty-first century.

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Math & Science

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Mathematics and Physical Sciences – Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences

Deadline: February 29, 2016

The Simons Foundation invites applications for the Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (MPS) program. The aim of the Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in the broad area of mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science. A Simons Collaboration in MPS should address a mathematical or theoretical topic of fundamental scientific importance, where a significant new development creates a novel area for exploration or provides a new direction for progress in an established field. The foundation expects to make up to two awards in 2016.

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Chemical Oceanography

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within the ocean and at its interfaces with the solid earth and the atmosphere.

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Physical Oceanography

Deadline: February 15, 2016

The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean’s physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth and ice that surround it.

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Biological Oceanography

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The Biological Oceanography Program supports research in marine ecology broadly defined: relationships among aquatic organisms and their interactions with the environments of the oceans or Great Lakes. Projects submitted to the program for consideration are often interdisciplinary efforts that may include participation by other OCE Programs.

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Engineering and Technology

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Structural and Architectural Engineering (SAE)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The overall goal of the Structural and Architectural Engineering (SAE) program is to evolve sustainable structures, such as buildings, that can be continuously occupied and /or operational during the structure’s useful life. The SAE program supports fundamental research for advancing knowledge and innovation in structural and architectural engineering that enables holistic approach to design, construction, operation, maintenance, retrofit, repair and end-of-life disposal of structures.

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Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events (IMEE)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The IMEE program supports fundamental, multidisciplinary research on the impact of hazards and extreme events upon civil infrastructure and society. The program is focused upon research on the mitigation of, preparedness for, response to, and recovery from multi-hazard disasters. Community and societal resilience and sustainability are important topics within the research portfolio of IMEE. The program is deeply multidisciplinary and attempts to integrate multiple issues from civil, mechanical, transportation, and system engineering, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, political science, urban planning, epidemiology, natural and physical science, and computer science.

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Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The MME program supports fundamental research that enables the development of new and/or improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and optimization of their use, with a particular focus on equipment appropriate for the manufacture of mechanical and electromechanical devices, products, and systems featuring scales from microns to meters.

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Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

Research topics of current interest include, but are not limited to, complex dynamical and structural systems; fundamental studies on stability, phase transitions, and wave propagation in complex and non-local media; integrity monitoring, reliability and safety of complex or stochastic engineered systems; unconventional applications of control; control and diagnostics of complex, distributed, interconnected and/or constrained systems; and control concepts inspired by nature.

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Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research (SMOR)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research (SMOR) program supports fundamental research leading to the creation of innovative mathematical models, analysis, and algorithms for decision-making related to design, planning, and operation of service, manufacturing, and other complex systems.

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Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) program supports fundamental research intended to lead to new paradigms of design, development, and insertion of advanced engineering material systems. Fundamental research that develops and creatively integrates theory, processing/manufacturing, data/informatics, experimental, and/or computational approaches with rigorous engineering design principles, approaches, and tools to enable the accelerated design and development of materials is welcome.

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